Present Music opened the new concert season on Saturday afternoon with 99 musicians tucked in among the sculptures of the 40-acre Lynden Sculpture Garden for a performance of John Luther Adams' "Inuksuit."

The bevy of percussionists and wind players used everything from temple gongs, drums, cymbals, conch shells and rocks to water sticks, whirly tubes, piccolos and several hand-cranked sirens over the 80-minute (or so) piece, written in 2009. | Sept. 7, 2013»Read Full Article

Patrick Hertz (front left) of Tinderbox Music, WYMS-FM (88.9) program director Mark Keefe and Adam Lewis of Planetary Group, a music marketing firm, talk about how to get noticed by radio stations.

Emerging bands and seasoned music industry professionals arrived in Milwaukee this weekend for the third annual Yellow Phone Music Conference, a boutique Midwestern variation of the must-attend music industry networking event South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Find Christ's drinking cup from the Last Supper? No problem. Splice a loving homage to Monty Python's low-tech antics with a sendup of Broadway's overblown extravaganzas? For "Spamalot" creators Eric Idle (book, lyrics and music) and John Du Prez (music), that might be the impossible dream.

Or so I found myself thinking Friday night, after emerging from yet another date with the frequently performed "Spamalot." Less than three years after a so-so production in the Milwaukee Theatre, this latest version arrives in town courtesy of Theatre Unchained — formerly Carte Blanche Studios Theatre — under John Baiocchi's direction. | Sept. 7, 2013»Read Full Article

The Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series' Song Contest is coming back for a second year.

WSSS staged a competition last year that attracted entries from Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri--and of course Wisconsin. For year two, 10 finalists will be chosen to perform in front of a panel of judges on Nov. 8 at the Unitarian Church - North, 13800 North Port Washington Road, in Mequon. The first and second place winners will be invited to open for LJ Booth and Chris Kokesh show at the church Nov. 9. The top three will receive cash prizes, recording studio time and a year-long membership to song placement website Broadjam. | Sept. 7, 2013»Read Full Article